A Fast Logdet Divergence Based Metric Learning Algorithm for Large Data Sets Classification. (18th May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mei, Jiangyuan; Hou, Jian; Chen, Jicheng; Karimi, Hamid Reza
• Other Names: Yin Shen Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Abstract and applied analysis. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-05-18
• Subjects: Mathematical analysis -- Periodicals; Mathematical analysis; Applied Mathematics; Mathematical Analysis; Periodicals; 515.05
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/463981
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1085-3375

Abstract

Abstract : Large data sets classification is widely used in many industrial applications. It is a challenging task to classify large data sets efficiently, accurately, and robustly, as large data sets always contain numerous instances with high dimensional feature space. In order to deal with this problem, in this paper we present an online Logdet divergence based metric learning (LDML) model by making use of the powerfulness of metric learning. We firstly generate a Mahalanobis matrix via learning the training data with LDML model. Meanwhile, we propose a compressed representation for high dimensional Mahalanobis matrix to reduce the computation complexity in each iteration. The final Mahalanobis matrix obtained this way measures the distances between instances accurately and serves as the basis of classifiers, for example, the k -nearest neighbors classifier. Experiments on benchmark data sets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm compares favorably with the state-of-the-art methods.